Golf club



Jan. 9, 1923. 1,441,492.

1. H. DWIGHT.

GOLF CLUB.

FILED 050.30, I920.

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GOLF CLUB.

Application filed December arr-i920. Serial in); 434,094.

My invention relates to a 116W and useful improvement in golf clubs.

My object is to provide an improved golf club, especiallyadapted tobeused in putting, which club is so shaped and constructed that theoperator may first veryaccurately sight along an indicated mark on theclub and thereby bring the club into accurate alignment with a hole intowhich the ball H 15 is perpendicular to the linel l.

is to be put, and thereafter may swing the club ina straight line alongthevlineof the indicated mark on the club, whereby the operator may bothplan and execute a putting shot with great accuracy. a A further object,is tocombine my improved putting device with an approach iron ofordinary construction in such a manner that the function and use of theapproach iron is not in any way injured by the presence of the puttingdevice, so

that the operator need purchase and carry:' only one golf club for thedouble purpose pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the samego-lfclub is employed. The handle the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure '1 shows a top or plan view of a golf club embodying myinvention.

Figure 2 shows a side elevation of-same. Figure 3 shows a view similarto Figure 2, of reduced size, and illustrating the man nor in which theclub is used as an approach iron. I v i Figure t shows a front elevationof the golf club in position for use as a putter,

pointing to the hole into which the ball'is to be put, and illustratingthe ball in dotted lines; and

Figure 5 shows a sectional line 55 of Figure 2.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I have used the referencenumeral 10 toindicate the body portion of the golf club, or morespecifically the part commonly termed the approach iron, It is ofsubstam view on the handle 13, of ordinary construction.

tially the same construction as that of the approach irons now in commonuse, the

bottom edge being curved at 11 and its front or striking face beingribbed at 12. At one side of the body portion'lO is a top edge ofthebody portion 10 is provided with. a straight indicating mark lt,parallelto the face 10. r

At the outer end of the body portion 101 have provided a putting plate15, its face being substantiallysemi-circular,- its upper edge beingcurved and its lower-edge at 16 7 being straight, This straight edge 16is pre 'ferably substantially at right angles to the face of the bodyportion 10, while the face 'when saidbodyportion is in position for useas an approachir'on. .However, when the golf club is being used as aputter,the rear end of the body portion 10 is preferably tilted to suchposition that the striking face of the putter member 15 willbe'substan-- tially vertical, and when in this position the straightlower edge 16 will be elevated slightly above the ground, when thebottom edge 11 is touching the ground. v

In practical use and when the club is being used as an approach iron, itis used in the ordinary manner. and when being thus used. the puttermember 15 does not in any way interfere with suchuse. Then when the ballis close enough to the hole for putting,

is held in such position that the body portion lO'willbe vertical, andis also held in such a position that the indicating line 14: will beexactly in line with the hole in which the ball is to be put. Underthesecir'cumstances it is obvious that the operator may first plan aputting shot with the greatest, accuracy, because the club may be heldwith The exactlyin line with the indicating mark 14. i

I claim as my invention:

An I improved golf club comprising a handle, anapproach shot portionupon the handle formed of metal and having its striking facesubstantially vertical when the handle portion is in position for makingan approach shot, and having its lower edge stai'itially at right anglesto the approach shot portion, said putting shot portion having its loweredge straight and substantially horizontal When in position for use, andthe top edge of the ap proach shot portion being straight andintersecting the putting shot portion substantially at its verticalcentral portion, for

the purposes stated.

JOHN H. DWVIGHT.

